How to make your GitHub repo popular

Tips & tricks that will help launching your products on GitHub with real world examples from https://github.com/epicmaxco/vuestic-admin and https://github.com/epicmaxco/epic-spinners

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1. How to Make Your GitHub Repo Popular With real cases of Vuestic and Epic Spinners
 Andrei Hrabouski
2. About Me • Co-founder at Epicmax and DreamSupport
 • Frontend developer • Gathered 24k+ GitHub stars
 • Built Epicmax as a service company around it’s open source products
3. Why Do We Create Open Source Software? • Altruism — empowering the community with nice and useful libs • Egoism — getting benefits (better CV, marketing, portfolio) • Egoistic altruism — doing good deeds with a reason ;)
4. What Does GitHub Popularity Give You? • People are using your lib • Nice traffic • People’s feedback • Contributors’ help • Community
5. Choosing a Lib
6. Choosing a Lib
7. Choosing a Lib
8. The Cycle Want people use your repo? Get developers to trust it Want developers to trust it? Get some start to show people use it Want stars? Get people to use your repo
9. Breaking the Cycle Et Exposure Product
10. Product Utility Trend Design Utility Trend Design
11. Vuestic
12. Exposure Frame the product Launch it like a boss
13. Framing Readme Graphics Demo/Landing
14. Framing: Readme & Graphics • Title & description • Graphics and screenshots • Link to demo • Requirements • Installation guides • Usage examples
15. Framing: Readme & Graphics
16. Framing: Readme & Graphics
17. Framing: Readme & Graphics
18. Framing: Demo/Landing
19. Framing: Demo/Landing
20. Framing: Demo/Landing
21. Framing: Demo/Landing
22. Launch: GitHub Trending
23. Launch: GitHub Trending • Prepare the promotion channels 
 • Choose the day
 • Choose time X
 • Ask friends
 • Feedback loop
24. Launch: Planning Teammates +10 11 AM Friends +70 12 PM Local Channels +10 2 PM Reddit +50 3:30 PM Twitter, FB, Slack +30 5 pm Trending 180
25. Launch: Channels • Reddit (reddit.com, reddit.com/r/javascript) • Producthunt (producthunt.com) • Hackernews (news.ycombinator.com) • Twitter • Facebook groups • Made with websites (madewithvuejs.com, madewithangular.com, madewithreact.com) • Slack channels (standuply.com/slack-groups) • Telegram channels (tgram.io/topic/2/it/dev) • Newsletters (javascriptweekly.com, vuejsfeed.com, phpweekly.com)
26. Launch: Reddit
27. Launch: Reddit
28. Launch: Next • Continue using the channels • Add yourself to awesome lists (github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) • Keep rocking
29. Thank You! andrei@epicmax.co Andrei Hrabouski